Bungie made elemental shields, and elemental legendary primaries (ELP) a raid exclusive to give raiders better reasons to grind raids. Those guns had no practical use elsewhere. Most legendary primaries have better stats. Each weapon has many percs, their permutation renders each variation a New Gun. Add that to each weapon and you have thousands of guns. Removing ELP removed less than 6 weapons from a pool of thousands of guns. Bungie saying the removal of ELP added 'variety' is just playing to a hopefully naive audience. Judging from some of the responses here, they are right! TLDR: to some here, Bungie could 'sell Sand to you if you were Saharan', and you would buy! Without independent thought, you wouldn't be capable of understanding when you were played. And: You were played!